Crime

Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy Armando Sorell has to serve 30 days of house-arrest and a year on probation after he was found guilty of trespassing into a Loxahatchee-area woman's home and slipping into bed with her in his underwear.

A man in a stolen car sped through a stop sign in Little Havana early Wednesday morning, causing a collision with a marked police car and sending the officer to the hospital with a broken arm and displaced hip, Miami police said.

A freshman at Franklin Academy in West Broward pointed out students who were on his list and mapped out how he would enter the school to carry out a school shooting, according to Pembroke Pines police. He later said he was trying to be funny.

Federal investigators are examining cracks that developed in the Florida International University bridge days before it collapsed. They had previously blocked the release of photographs showing those cracks.

Esteban Santiago, 28, will be sentenced to life in prison, avoiding a possible death penalty at trial under the plea agreement between the U.S. attorney's office and defense lawyers that was accepted by a Miami federal judge.

Eric Rivera, convicted of murdering Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor in 2007, wanted a reduced sentence. He was originally given over 57 years in prison for the murder of the former University of Miami star safety.

Two Florida Republicans, Marco Rubio and Mario Díaz-Balart, want President Trump to consider the possible indictment of Cuban leader Raúl Castro for the 1996 shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes. Four Cuban-American pilots died.

The ringleader of a criminal organization that defrauded insurance companies out of millions of dollars by setting fire to homes and then filing false claims will serve 20 years in state prison and pay $1.9 million in restitution, a judge ruled.

Nikolas Cruz's defense team can review some of the evidence prosecutor's plan to use in his murder trial, including three cellphone video statements he made, court records show. Cruz, 19, confessed to killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in February.

A Broward Sheriff's Office deputy was arrested Monday and charged with petit theft after the department says the 13-year veteran stole about $200 worth of DVDs, including "Fifty Shades Freed," and "Deadpool" and "Star Wars" action figures from a Lauderdale Lakes Walmart.

At trial in January, testimony by convicted associates and pictures from a 2,000-kilo drug seizure bolstered the Justice Department's case that Sergio Neftali Mejia-Duarte was guilty of conspiring to supply cocaine to Mexico's notorious Sinaloa Cartel for distribution in the United States.

Jonathan Oddi, the porn actor who got into a gun battle with police at the Trump National Doral Miami hotel, will not get out jail before trial. He made his first appearance in court on Monday morning.

On May 8, two men parked their car near the change machine of a car wash at a Dania Beach Mobil gas station. While one man acted as a lookout, the second used a drill to make a hole in the machine. They then stole 3,396 ($849) in quarters.